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It really doesn't matter who you are, what you’re interested in, where you live or if you have no computer experience at all, we want this site to have something for you. Listen and Learn Recordings promote friendly, easy to follow, informal but well structured audio introductions, tutorials and walk through's that are aimed at everyone from the beginner to the more advanced professional looking to get a running start with some new software or hardware. That's not to say you will only find computer related topics. If you want to hear about it, we want to record it! Use the feedback form to send your wish list off to the recording team.

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NVDA with Google Docs

8 December 2011 - 8:16am | by darragh
Kevin Chao demonstrates and provides a tutorial on Google Docs document with James Teh's Grease Monkey script. The Google Docs accessibility fixes greasemonkey scripts addresses: detects screen reader support is enabled and discards ARIA live-region used by Google and makes it proper and efficient with NVDA. Download and install Firefox, followed by Greasemonkey add-on, and finally Twitter accessibility fixes script. Firefox Greasemonkey add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/ Google Docs accessibility fixes greasemonkey script: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28976681/GoogleDocsA11yFixes.user.js Google Docs has a variety of native built-in keyboard shortcuts, which are standard and screen reader specific. All can be found via help or Google.

NVDA with Twitter Web UI

7 December 2011 - 10:20pm | by kevinchao

Kevin Chao demonstrates and provides a tutorial on Twitter web UI with James Teh's Grease Monkey script. The Twitter accessibility fixes greasemonkey scripts addresses: proper/real keyboard focus, greatly reduce lag, character count remaining to be reported when pressing NVDA+TAB, and when focus is returned to timeline after performing an action for the information to be refreshed properly.

Download and install Firefox,,/a> followed by Greasemonkey add-on, and finally Twitter accessibility fixes script.
Twitter.com has a link towards the bottom called "shortcuts", which list the various shortcuts that are built-in/native.

NVDA with Adobe Digital Editions

7 December 2011 - 10:11pm | by kevinchao

Kevin Chao demonstrates and provides a tutorial on NVDA's experimental dePageTurns, which since has been merged into main snapshot, and will be included in 2012.1. All works with 2011.3 except for automatic page turn while performing read all. ADE will allow borrowing, purchasing, and reading of protected and unprotected eBooks. All standard, built-in Adobe Digital Editions commands and functionality are used. Kevin focuses on: selecting book, navigating within book, links list, navigating to link, adding bookmark, managing bookmark, viewing library, and performing a read all in another book. Please see NVDA's snapshot download page TO install, test, and report any/all issues via issue tracker.

Adobe Digital Editions 1.8.1 Preview 2 download and product page

For desktop specific and other laptop commands, please see NVDA's keyboard command quick reference: NVDA+N for NVDA UI; H for Help; K for Keyboard Command Quick Reference.